My opinion on why tv shows aren't the same anymore.

Disagree. Those 24 episode shows still exist. Almost all of them were and still are mostly episodic in nature and characters themselves rarely developed and remained unchanged since the pilot. This is a strange opinion that I keep reading more and more, but I never hear examples of those quality 24 episode shows.

The Wire was 12 episode seasons Mad Men, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad were 13 episode seasons Better Call Saul was 10

I don't exactly remember where I read/heard this, but of course with how little episodes we get is because of monetization models. In ye olden times, a series has ad spots in each episode, so a popular series will have more eyeballs, and more eyeballs will watch more ads. The longer a season is, the better the returns on ads. Now with streaming, ads are (generally) a thing of the past. No ad spots to sell means no reason to lengthen a show's run. Streaming makes money by giving consumers more reason to subscribe. So King of the Hill and Malcom in the Middle reboots won't have long seasons, but the streaming service would get more subs/$ because both shows are popular and give reason for people to stay on. Going back to your point, a shorter run means less time for storylines to flesh out. Some shows do benefit from the truncated time, sure, but it will be a while to see this again.

They rely to heavily on Couples Fandom 👎🏽🤮 They go back in time too much.. Why not start from the beginning at the start.. I don't wanna see no dayum Flashbacks.. They whisper to 🤬 much.. What's wrong with talking at a Regular Volume..  They Rely to heavily on Cliffhangers  The Premise is stretched out past 3 Seasons and it's become boring Sometimes it'll take years for it to return and fans have forgotten about it and have no interest in watching it anymore 

There doesn't need to be a set number of episodes for every show. 20 episode seasons often had pointless filler episodes. I wouldn't mind the 8 episode seasons if we didn't have to wait 4 years between seasons. That is the real problem.

Back in the day, you wanted to get your tv show into syndication. You’d make 65 episodes then you could sell it into reruns - 5 days a week for 13 weeks. Perfect fit for broadcast calendars. So 26 episode seasons were fairly standard. You could be in syndication in less than three years. Then streaming happened…

The answer is money, simple as that. Every company wants to maximize profits and minimize expenses. It is literally no deeper than that.

I have the opposite experience. Many shows have too many episodes. They are required to fill 10-12 by contract, but the story gets stretched thin. So we end up with scenes of every minor character has a family, family drama, etc. Case in point: the detective in All Her Fault. He had an autistic son, and that was like it came from a different show or a Hallmark movie. It was padding. And Task was seven episodes IIRC, where that story could have easily been a big-ass movie over 3-4 episodes. Lots of padding on Task. Probably came from a novel (I didn't look) where sure, you go into all of that. But you don't *have* to for filmed entertainment. Often 95% of a novel's content is eliminated for filming (TV or movies). UK dramas do this really smartly, a lot of the time. But for US streamers, 3-4 episodes isn't worth the investment (I was in the industry, it's not very expensive to add an extra episode or two to the budget, relatively speaking, so why spend $30 million for 4 episodes when you can spend $38 million for 6?) But TV shows are the same. There are more than 500 each year in the US and Canada alone. If you can't find something you like in that sea of content, then I dunno. Writers (the head writer is typically the showrunner) are telling longer *single* stories now. That is more than enough time to develop characters. There are more serialized shows now. Episodic shows are very different. X-Files episodes were mostly episodic. When something is episodic, you can have 10 episodes or 50, no difference for the viewer, really. Think of it another way. Shows are now trilogies. Many shows are about 9-10 hours of content. Just like a trilogy. With one main storyline. That's sometimes too much for one storyline, but adding more can be a problem if they don't stack up to the main one. Anyway, you asked!

In the 70's, an 60 min show, on a commercial channel were allowed 7 mins of advertising time. Then they moved to self regulation, and today they are barely touching 40min of show time. So, ram through a storyline in 40 mins max with Commericals for 20 mins all while I'm sitting there the a remote in my hands.

They arent the same bacause that's how it be.

>I think it's because writers don't have enough allocated episodes to fit all the stuff they want to include in each season. They did a filler episode in Strangers Things season 2. They just don't know how to write stories properly - if they're even writing them themselves?

I don't care as long as the industry keeps making shit I want to watch that's all that matters. If I finish one show there will always be another.

Tv shows aren’t the same anymore cause of political correctness. Too many snowflakes.